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9th meeting of the Floods Working Group

-Agenda point 5 “FD implementation”

WGF 9, 31.3.1.4.2011

Budapest, Hungary.

Maria Brättemark, WFD Team, DG ENV.D.1, European Commission

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Agenda point 5 “Implementation of the Floods Directive”

Directive 2007/60/EC on the assessment and management of flood risks

Transitional measures (art 13) • 13 MS have replied to the letter of 17.12.2011, asking for

information on if art 13 would be used • 8 have indicated some use of transitional measures

• PFRA (option 1.a Existing assessment) :• LV full, ES partial(3 RBD), DE unclear

• PFRA (option 1.b straight to mapping/plans) : • LU, NL full, BE, UK part of territory, DE unclear

• Maps : • LU full, AT partial, DE unclear

• Plans : • DE unclear

• For other EU Member States no use of article 13 is

assumed.

• 13 MS have replied to the letter of 17.12.2011, asking for information on if art 13 would be used

• 8 have indicated some use of transitional measures • PFRA (option 1.a Existing assessment) :

• LV full, ES partial(3 RBD), DE unclear• PFRA (option 1.b straight to mapping/plans) :

• LU, NL full, BE, UK part of territory, DE unclear• Maps :

• LU full, AT partial, DE unclear• Plans :

• DE unclear

• For other EU Member States no use of article 13 is

assumed.

Directive 2007/60/EC on the assessment and management of flood risks

Administrative arrangements

• Administrative arrangements (art 3):• 25 Member States have communicated information• Ireland and Italy have used smaller Units of management than the RBD.• Visualisation in WISE in preparation.• 221 national parts of RBD, at least 343 Competent authorities… need for

strong international coordination in the RBD !

• Most reported electronically • BG and HU informed that WFD administrative

arrangements applies.• Other Units of management

• IT & IE smaller units• RO, DE reported sub-units, may be displayed under

RBD level but these are not considered UoM as set out in the Directive.

• Administrative arrangements (art 3):• 25 Member States have communicated information• Ireland and Italy have used smaller Units of management than the RBD.• Visualisation in WISE in preparation.• 221 national parts of RBD, at least 343 Competent authorities… need for

strong international coordination in the RBD !

• Most reported electronically • BG and HU informed that WFD administrative

arrangements applies.• Other Units of management

• IT & IE smaller units• RO, DE reported sub-units, may be displayed under

RBD level but these are not considered UoM as set out in the Directive.

Directive 2007/60/EC on the assessment and management of flood risks

WISE viewer

Directive 2007/60/EC on the assessment and management of flood risks

WISE viewer

Floods Directive

interactive maps

Directive 2007/60/EC on the assessment and management of flood risks

More informationhttp://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/flood_risk/index.htm

Maria Brättemark, Desk officer Floods/WFD, European Commission, DG ENV.D.1

Thank you for your attention !